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Now Seeking Community Support via Kickstarter, NEOPON 2 are the Next Generation Flexible Earphones Designed for Every Ear!

Telewide, a Korea based professional technology design company, has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo in order to introduce their newest creation to the public. This campaign has a funding goal of $3,900, which needs to be raised in order to bring Telewide's "Lightning Armor" to market. This creation was inspired by the short life of lightning cables, and the extreme expense of always needing to replace them with a new cable. The team states, "Because of the extensive usage of the charging cable after 5 to 9 months since purchase you notice that it starts to tear open at the base of the connector and unless you take some protection measures, you will simply have to throw it away and get a new one." That led them to come up with an extremely low-cost solution.

A Homeland Security official confirmed last week that tech components imported from overseas, many of which end up in some of the most popular American gadgets, are often infected with malicious software.

A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll confirms what other recent surveys have shown: The bump that President Obama received in the wake of Osama bin Laden's death has receded. And amid renewed pessimism about the direction of the country, voters' desire to re-elect the president has reverted to levels seen earlier this spring.

Greek communists gather in Athens Thursday to rally against the government's austerity measures. Prime Minister George Papandreou vowed to stay on... View Enlarged Image Financial Crisis: As heavily indebted Greece continues to implode, threatening to drag Europe down with it, Americans should remember one key fact: Repeated bailouts don't work, only fiscal responsibility does.

Hewlett-Packard is taking mixed reviews for its new TouchPad tablet with webOS pretty seriously, going by a leaked internal memo from the head ofHP's Palm Global Business Unit to staff that declares it will be "a marathon not a sprint" to fix the initial shortcomings of the device.

Hewlett-Packard is taking mixed reviews for its new TouchPad tablet with webOS pretty seriously, going by a leaked internal memo from the head ofHP's Palm Global Business Unit to staff that declares it will be "a marathon not a sprint" to fix the initial shortcomings of the device.

South Korean telecom titan KT Corp. and Japan's Softbank Telecom Corp. will set up a joint cloud computing venture in South Korea later this year, the companies said Monday, aiming to tap into demand for reliable Internet storage systems that can protect companies' data from natural disasters.

Imperial Tobacco (IMT.L) today warned profits from its Spanish division could drop by up to £110 million for the year ending 30 September 2011 compared to previous guidance. The cigarette manufacturer said it was responding to price cuts from competitors in recent weeks, which have impacted all market participants in the Spanish market, and the company has moved to protect its market position.

The state's Consumer Credit Protection Bureau says a fake company is offering fictitious loans to consumers who send money in advance.

Warning … structural shift in the economy. Photo: AFP. ANZ has warned of a structural shift across the economy where industries such as manufacturing, tourism and retailing need to confront to the reality of a persistently high Australian dollar.

The general improvement in sentiment in the financial markets over the past month has also been evident in the commodity markets.

But a further significant consideration towards year-end has been the fear of possible defaults on sovereign debts after the decision by Dubai World, a government-owned company, to seek a moratorium on the servicing of its debts, and the downgrade in the credit rating of Greece because of its deteriorating fiscal situation.

This penstock feeds the water downhill to a generating station. The natural force of gravity creates the energy required to spin the turbines that in turn generate electricity. The water leaves the generating station and is returned to the river without altering the existing flow or water levels.

The situation in Greece and in Spain has obviously caused great concern in London. But the Bank is also aware of the risks as a time when the economy is still in a very fragile state, and of the need to compensate for the fiscal retrenchment by maintaining a supportive monetary policy, and low short-term interest rates. There are therefore reasons for concern about the prospects for sterling. If the latest measures do succeed in reducing the fiscal deficit to manageable levels without aborting the economic recovery, and if the problems affecting the euro continue, or become even more serious, then sterling may well maintain current levels or even appreciate further.

Factory output expanded at a record pace in April, helped by investment spending associated with the export effort, and overseas demand for European capital equipment, and the trend appears to be continuing.

Sentiment in the financial markets has improved over the past month. There has been further evidence that the recovery in the global economy is continuing; the sovereign debt crisis in Europe has not yet produced a major casualty; there has been a modest rally in the euro; and the Chinese authorities have announced that they intend to adopt a “more flexible” policy towards the renminbi that is expected to allow it to appreciate at a slightly faster rate.

Fisher Capital Management- Financial Markets: Sentiment in the financial markets has improved over the past month.

Fisher Capital Management Report - The UK has had an emergency budget and it could have been much worse.

However, although the pace of the global economic recovery may be affected, there appears to be enough momentum to enable it to continue.

There was further evidence that the global economic recovery was still on track, and short-term interest rates remained very low.

Japanese Finance Minister Naoto Kan has recently exerted pressure on the Bank of Japan (BOJ) to act more quickly to defeat deflation, saying he wants the falling price trend to end this year. “Two or three years is too long. If possible.

Strathclyde Associates Foreign Exchange Markets October 2010 Part 1: Uncertainty has remained the predominant feature of the foreign exchange markets over the past month. The sovereign debt crisis in Europe has clearly not been resolved; and there has been further evidence of the conflicting views of the central bankers about the most appropriate measures to correct the current problems, with the Fed primarily interested in maintaining the momentum in the US economy, and the European Central Bank and the Bank of England more anxious to tighten fiscal policy to reduce the size of outstanding fiscal deficits.

Now consider UK taxation. Already under this current UK government tax, and stealth taxation in particular, has become the soft default option. By the mid-2000s the top marginal rate of tax including all imposts.

Fisher Capital Management: Government Bond Markets Global Outlook Part 2 - Our position remains unchanged; any existing exposure to bonds should be further reduced in favor of US & Euro equities.

Equity Markets. All the major equity markets, and most of the emerging markets, have moved higher over the month. Wall Street has provided most of the momentum, encouraged by optimistic comments from the Fed and by the flow of favourable corporate results.

We have made no changes in the balance of our portfolios this month. The strength of the equity markets is encouraging, and we expect that the global economy will continue to recover, and push the markets even higher by year-end.